NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft lifted off for its second test flight on March 20, 2026, but a warning indicator forced ...

NASA and Lockheed Martin's X-59-a prototype design for a quiet, supersonic commercial airliner-"returned prematurely" to ...

NASA’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft completed its second test flight, marking the start of ...

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft completed its second test flight on March 20, 2026, lifting off from the dry lakebed ...

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NASA's experimental supersonic X-59 jet designed to travel faster than the speed of sound is preparing for its second flight from California.

For the second flight, NASA test pilot Jim “Clue” Less will be at X-59’s controls. Less will take off and land the aircraft at Edwards Air Force Base, near X-59’s home at NASA’s Armstrong Flight ...

Though the X-59 was designed to negate the “sonic boom” typically found on supersonic aircraft, it has stayed well short of supersonic speeds—at least for now.

American space agency NASA announced it is preparing for the second flight of the X-59 experimental aircraft, the first in the envelope expansion.

Lockheed Martin designed NASA's Quesst mission. An experimental aircraft called X-59 is being tested as a significant part of ...

A render of the X-59 quiet supersonic airplane flying above the desert. - Lockheed Martin For decades, flying faster than the speed of sound has meant speeding across the skies in an aircraft that ...

There hasn't been a supersonic commercial aircraft since the retirement of the Concorde in 2003. NASA is trying to change that. The Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST will test technology to fly faster, ...